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Friday was my leaving do. It was my 'last Friday' before I fly, so I went to Lark Lane for tea and drinks with my friends and colleagues. It felt like it was someone else's leaving do, but with my friends there, so it was lovely. Until Saturday morning, when I feel decidedly rough and had a long journey and still a lot of jobs ahead of me. I'm now back in Grimsby, with the final haul of stuff back at mum and dad's and just the task of packing my backpack to ...

... decided on Lincoln for our day. We are getting used to the highways and the speed the cars drive - we sit on about 100km/hour but the audi's and Mercedes that they drive here fly past us doing 150km/per hour and make us look like we are not moving at all - this is all with wet snowy roads. A little scary but im sure we would be doing the same if we were used to it. On the way we took a quick detour into Doddington hall which was ...

... my Christmas jumper around a lot and got some decorations for my room. My block mates will all be leaving at the end of the week, returning home for the holidays. It will be nice to have some peace and quite in the block, but I fear it will get lonely quickly. I do have some travel plans for after Christmas. I am hoping to go to London and possibly over to Shrewsbury where my boyfriend is from.

... duvet), but some are really unexpected. Every week or so I still encounter a new word or phrase that is not used here or back home. Just yesterday I said I was 'eyeing off' something and my two friends just looked at me confused. I've had to learn a lot of slang like pied, neck on, off license, etc.One phrase that still gets me is "You allright?" It's like a mix between 'hello' and 'how are you'. It took me a good couple of weeks to figure out that people ...

I (Eric) had resolved to driving around in Great Britain. A road trip to Stonehenge fit the bill nicely. Wrong side of the car, wrong side of the road, manual transmission operated with my left hand... the worst traffic than London had seen in some time. We were at a slow crawl for kilometers...Caught Stonehenge after close from behind a fence, standing amid sheep and their excrement - all of which was somehow still ...